Thread: Liberal cities across America collapsing into Third World status, including Seattle

Pay up Slim Pickens; someone's got to pay for those Illegal Aliens

Sean Hannity

**REPORT: Nation's largest cities 'drowning in debt.' NYC tax burden $85K per person, Chicago $119K+.**



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LIBERAL UTOPIA: Nation’s Largest Cities ‘Drowning in Debt,’ NYC Tax Burden $85K+ PER PERSON | Sean…

I am at the point I no longer care; it doesn't faze me to see this suffering and that's the scary part. America has excepted this as well. It is every man, woman and child for themselves

Homeless population jumps by thousands across the San Francisco Bay Area

Benjamin Oreskes
2 hrs ago

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California is spending millions of dollars to stem the tide of homelessness without much to show for it. The latest evidence of that arrived Thursday, when several Bay Area cities and counties reported that their latest tallies of homeless people revealed big increases.

San Francisco saw a 17% jump in the number of homeless residents over the last two years, according to preliminary results of the city’s point-in-time count.

In January, volunteers recorded 8,011 homeless people living in shelters and on the streets in the city of roughly 880,000. Their 2017 count logged 6,858 people.

“The initial results of this count show we have more to do to provide more shelter, more exits from homelessness, and to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place,” the city’s mayor, London Breed, said in a statement.

The number of people living in cars and campers grew — a big part of the reason the number of unsheltered people increased, the city said.

San Francisco has seen rental prices skyrocket, making it a major player in the statewide debate about how to best reduce the number of people living on the streets.

But Breed did share some good news for her city: Youth and veteran homelessness dipped 10% and 14%, respectively. She also announced that the city’s budget would include $5 million for projects aimed at preventing people from becoming homeless.

But San Francisco plans to release more extensive findings on homelessness in July that could reveal more troubling trends.

Farther south in the Bay Area, the number of homeless people living in Santa Clara County increased 31% over the last two years, from 7,394 to 9,706, according to preliminary results released by the county. San Jose saw a surge of 1,822 people, for a total of 6,172 homeless residents living in the county’s largest city.

"We all have a shared responsibility to address this crisis — every city and every neighborhood,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said in a statement. “That means we must house homeless neighbors here, not the proverbial ‘somewhere else.’”

In the East Bay’s Alameda County, the numbers weren’t any better, with a 43% increase since 2017. The homeless population there numbers 8,022, of which 6,312 are unsheltered.

The full reports for both counties will be released in July as well. The organization that conducted Alameda’s count, EveryOne Home, says that about 1,500 people return to permanent housing every year, but that number is offset by the 3,000 people who fall into homelessness for the first time each year.

Point-in-time counts are required by the federal government as a way to asses how funding is distributed for homelessness. Statewide, there were an estimated 129,972 homeless people in 2018 — and these increases in homelessness square with a worrisome already trend seen by several counties in Southern California.

Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties all recorded percent increases in homelessness in the double digits for 2019.

Los Angeles is expected to release its findings by the end of the month, and local officials are not optimistic that it will show any signs that the problem is abating — even as $619 million was spent last year to grapple with the crisis.

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Is California ready to ban gas-powered cars? Not yet. But they're thinking about it

Chris Woodyard
4 hrs ago

© Provided by USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc. A Los Angeles-area freeway in a file photo. California has notoriously bad traffic and air quality.

LOS ANGELES — California without gasoline-burning cars? The idea is starting to be floated.

A top regulator came close Thursday, but ultimately backed away from directly raising the notion of giving the boot to exhaust-belching automobiles, a staple of life in the freeway-happy Golden State for more than a century.

Speaking at an air-quality workshop in San Diego, Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, was expected to toss in the idea of killing off gas-powered cars based on her prepared remarks. They called for her to list ways in which the state can get tougher on pollution.

“That might mean, for example, tougher requirements for low-carbon fuels, looking at tighter health-protective regulations on California refineries, doubling down on our enforcement efforts on mobile and stationary sources — and might lead to an outright ban on internal-combustion engines,” according to the remarks obtained by Bloomberg News.

But when it came to actually delivering the remarks, the direct reference to a gas-engine ban was omitted. In closing the conference, Nichols said if the air can't be cleaned fast enough, tougher measures like "fees, taxes and bans on certain types of vehicles" might be required. She added, "These are things that most of us don't think is the right way to go."

Nichols wasn't proposing a gas-vehicle ban on a whim, said Simon Mui, senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Rather, she was reacting to steps that California may have to take to stay in compliance with toughening federal clean-air regulations. If the state, famous for its smoggy air, were to fall short, it would face sanctions.

"The feds have clearly put the states into a bind," Mui said after attending the conference.

In California, a ban on the sale of internal-combustion cars is considered a fanciful idea. In fact, a bill to ban the sale of internal-combustion cars by 2040 was introduced in the California Legislature last year, though it didn't get far.

“It’s time that we clear the path for emissions-free transportation and take significant steps to achieve our ambitious emissions reduction goals," Assemblyman Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat, said in a statement at the time.

The California New Car Dealers Association opposed the measure, saying the state lacked enough public charging stations to keep all those electrics on the road, that the bill didn't take into account the valuable role played by gas-electric hybrid vehicles and that it was too hard to mandate rules on vehicle sales more than 20 years in the future.

Already, California is the nation's leader in the sale of electric cars. The association says more than 500,000 are on the road.

Some experts agree the timing isn't yet right to talk about a gasoline-free future.

"California has always been a visionary when it comes to 'green' cars," said Ron Cogan, publisher of the Green Car Journal.

"It's not surprising there are elements in government who want to move us away from internal-combustion cars." But "given the high cost of electric cars and that a great majority of entry-level buyers can't afford them, it's too early about talk about taking gas-powered cars off the road," Cogan said.

Given the charging challenge and other issues, "so many things have to happen before that is financially or fundamentally possible," he added

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Los Angeles mayor, DEMOCRAT Eric Garcetti, and California governor, DEMOCRAT Gavin Newsom, spent the last two years “exploring” a run for president in 2020. Facing the magnitude of his city/state's problem with homelessness, they were forced to conclude that such a run was not in the cards.



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Jim Breslo: California homelessness is so out of control, people are turning to boats – Dems are clueless

I will NOT be paying for these; these politicians need to be incarcerated for what they have done to these cities and states

America's Top Cities Swamped In Debt, Chicago Leads The Way




"Taxpayers are on the hook for the debts accrued by these underlying government entities, but you would not know it just by looking at the reported data for the city,"

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Taxpayers in America's ten biggest cities face an average per taxpayer burden of $50,000 in debt incurred by the county, state and or "off-balance-sheet" transactions by city government entities, according to Truth in Accounting (TIA).
The taxpayer burden, TIA explains, is the amount residents would have to pay to cover all of a government's debt. "When the unfunded debt of these underlying government units is combined with the county, municipal, and state debt, city taxpayers are on the hook for much more than they think," according to TIA.





The cities are ranked from top to bottom, on net position, explained Bill Bergman, director of research for TIA. "And it's on that basis that Chicago ranks dead last," he said.
Chicago taxpayer burden equates to $119,110 in debt per taxpayer, a number that includes debt from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the state of Illinois. Bergmans said the most significant burdens on taxpayers is from CPS. He added, CPS has separate financial ledgers.

"As bad as the picture is for the city, you add a significantly higher debt load once you include the Chicago Public Schools," he said.

The massive debt load could affect Chicago's S&P Global Ratings, was warned several years ago that its rating could sink into junk unless it passes a budget that addresses the fiscal situation.

"Taxpayers are on the hook for the debts accrued by these underlying government entities, but you would not know it just by looking at the reported data for the city," the report states.

Following Chicago, New York City's combined Taxpayer Burden: $85,600; Los Angeles' combined Taxpayer Burden: $56,390; Philadelphia's combined Taxpayer Burden: $50,120.

"The debt facing school districts in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio don't add nearly as much to the total debt burden facing taxpayers in those cities as most others of the largest 10 cities we studied," Bergman added. "Still, one might have expected better overall financial conditions for those Texas cities in light of economic and demographic trends in the last decade."

For these cities to pay off its debt, each taxpayer would need to fork over around $50,000 each. Zerohedge readers understand, 60% of millennials don't have $500 in savings ahead of the next recession. So obviously this deadbeat generation that is expected to take over the workforce by 2024 won't have the ability to bail out America's deadbeat cities in the next downturn.
Which leaves us with the question of the day: Will the Federal Reserve bailout heavily indebted cities in the next crisis?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...cago-leads-way

Seattle's Pro-Sanctuary/Socialist City Council Member comes up with a "genius" solution for the increased, gang-related drive-by shootings in the Emerald City. smh.... Watch out, AOC...Seattle's Sawant is giving you a run for your money.



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Sawant calls for speed bumps to curb drive-by shootings in Central District

Map: The most and less distressed communities in America

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Democrat politicians can't be bothered with such mundane matters as collecting trash when they are so busy protecting illegal aliens.



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Rotting Trash Piles Sky-High in LA, Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic

Mountains of Rotting Rat-Infested Trash Piles Sky-High in Liberal Utopia of Los Angeles (VIDEO)

May 21, 2019, 3:56 pm by Cristina Laila 278 Comments

Illinoisans Will Be Among Nation's Hardest-Hit In Next Recession



Illinois is in dire financial straits, as the below graphics show. The state is an outlier in most fiscal categories nationwide, and in many cases, Illinois is the extreme outlier...